Is it possible, I asked the team, that this was a perfect storm? That you just happened to run into a combination of three random events that caused a problem you couldn’t have foreseen? That you dealt with the problem the best way you could?

A non-profit I work with needed to pack up its office and move to its new office. Most of the people packing would be volunteers, and we needed to make a way for them to easily see what needed to be done, select something to do, and feel useful and helpful quickly. So… I set up a Kanban board!

Reading time: 3 minutes Agile frameworks can help you set priorities and get things done in lots of different situations, not just in software development. I’ve been using Scrum and Kanban to organize my life for five months now. I know of people who teach their...

In my last post, I described an improv theater game you can use to increase your team’s social sensitivity. Here’s way you can vary this game if you have one person who has a disproportionately negative effect on the team, to see how their actions alone can affect the entire team…

Do you want to help your team learn to work together more effectively, and have fun at the same time? Have them play “Friend and Foe.” It’s easy — you just need a space big enough to move around in, and one simple rule…

Sometimes, rather than giving way to someone, you have to keep going, metaphorically speaking. I had a coworker once who’d always walk down the middle of the corridors between the cubicles. So I’d step to the side. He kept walking down the middle of the corridor. Then I tried something different…

If you’re a Scrum Master, and you have one person on your team who’s causing trouble for the rest of the team, should the person be removed from the team? Actually, the first thing you should think about is whether it’s really one team member who’s causing trouble for the rest of the team, or whether something else is going on…